{"id":287509,"date":"2023-04-13T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=287509"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:07:42","slug":"studying-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/04\/13\/studying-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"studying Maths ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting experience with grade 7 this week. I had given them a test in which many performed poorly. I then gave them a repeat test (same structure, same questions, slightly altered numbers) and many still did poorly. When I asked for feedback, many said they studied, reviewed the notes and exercises. But simple questions revealed a lack of knowledge. So my next question was &#8220;how do you study maths?&#8221;\u00a0 Clearly, browsing over notes and exercises did not help.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my tips to studying maths:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>learning is an <strong>active process<\/strong>. Browsing over notes doesn&#8217;t cut it.<\/li>\n<li>learn terminology and process. (<strong>memorise,<\/strong> <strong>quiz<\/strong> a fellow student, <strong>explain<\/strong> to someone else, or <strong>write<\/strong> it down) If you can&#8217;t explain (verbally) the steps in a process or use the terminology, then you don&#8217;t know it!.<\/li>\n<li>write &#8211; do problems by actively writing solutions. Do many as is needed to understand a concept.<\/li>\n<li>do different levels of problems (easy &#8211; difficult). See it as a challenge. You can do this!<\/li>\n<li>complete classwork in class &#8211; many students think that they can do this later and &#8220;relax&#8221; in class when they should be working. This has two downsides:\n<ul>\n<li>they forget to do the work later<\/li>\n<li>they lose the opportunity to ask the teacher questions if they struggle with problems. (the teacher doesn&#8217;t have time later when you decide to work&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any subject is &#8220;easy&#8221; if you work smart. But you have to WORK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting experience with grade 7 this week. I had given them a test in which many performed poorly. I then gave them a repeat test (same structure, same questions, slightly altered numbers) and many still did poorly. When I asked for feedback, many said they studied, reviewed the notes and exercises. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,30,192,31,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dp","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-grade-9","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}